Those who don’t remember the past are doomed to repeat it

Joe DeMarco submitted a letter to the editor in which he included a passage from “Mein Kampf,” Hitler’s political manifesto or blueprint for what became a horrendous reality.

A profound and prophetic utterance from a madman, who was also Time’s Man of the Year in 1938.

Amazing how his rhetoric is somehow validated over 80 years later? Incredible how this new political figure could manipulate the educated masses with propaganda, lies and distortion.

A crafty “spin doctor” used just two forms of contemporary media (newspapers and radio) to accomplish this and spread this distorted news. Just think how their “fake news” wasn’t spread on social media like ours is today?

Tragic what was accomplished then without it!

How and why could this occur to a technological and civilized nation?

My summary of this excerpt is simple: People see only what they want to see, hear what they want to hear and believe almost anything!

It seems humans are addicted to sensationalism in a macabre kind of way. Proof of this can be substantiated. Just look at social media and how much fake news became truth to the gullible believers in 2016.

Remember how political “news” infiltrated the presidential campaign?

Events like these always remind me of this famous quotation from George Santayana (1863-1952):

Comments (2)

This is getting way out of hand

Hillary lost, not because of Russia, or fake news. She lost because she was completely out of touch with a very large segment of America. And, she's not the only one that lost. The democratic party followed her lead and also lost big time. If they don't start seeing the light, they will become irrelevant. Two big losses in a row is a trend. It will be three in a row if they continue to protest, whine and create their own fake news. A large segment of the population has had more than enough... (And by the way, they need to lose the "A listers". They do you way more harm than good).. Just sayin..

Fred V Provoncha238 days ago

yes, history is being repeated, sadly

The Democratic party did not lose "big time" as you say, Mr. Provoncha. Simply put, there are 2.8 MILLION people whose votes did not count in this presidential election. Of the eligible voters across the entire country, Clinton got 25.6% while Trump only got 25.5%. When looking at those who did vote, Clinton had 48 percent (59,580,545 votes) compared to 47 percent (59,341,558 votes) for Trump, according to the Associated Press, Nov 9, 2016. Trump got FEWER votes. Clinton got MORE votes. Those are facts not fake news. It is the result of the antiquated Electoral college which allows some votes in this country to count as 3 votes while others only count as half a vote. Despite the story we are told from grade school, we do not live in a true democracy.

Twice in one lifetime, voters from one party have won the popular Presidential vote and yet have had the victory taken away from them by those who cast fewer votes. I wonder how Republicans would express themselves if the situation were reversed and their candidate had won the popular vote but was not allowed to take the office for which they had been elected? Twice. Our system is broken. Voters know it. There will continue to be loud and disruptive protests so long as the real winners have to endure being told by the minority that they "lost" even when they have cast nearly 3 million more votes.

Sally Smith236 days ago

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